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Education
· Harvard dropout back in 1975.

Jobs
· Currently he is a philanthropist and just gives charity money. He has created 14.7 million jobs in the I.T. industry.


Volunteerism
· He was an philanthropist. (the practice of performing charitable or benevolent actions)

Patents held
· The Electromagnetic engine

Inventions
· He invented Microsoft DOS and Windows operating system.

Salary
· 3,710,000,000 per year ( http://www.salary-money.com/Bill-Gates-salary-3710000000.php )

Business success (ex. stock value)
· Stock market: (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/MSFT)

Honors/awards earned
· He gave away $2 billion on global education and health initiatives
· Became the richest man in the world
· Launched windows 95
· Inspiring the idea of home computers

Size of Company
· 14.7 million Job’s.

# of users
· 94% of the PC market uses windows Operating systems; 750 Million users.( 750 Million Users)

Foundations/charitable Giving
· Gave 3.3 million to William H. Gates foundation and gates learning foundation.